... commit youth crimes. Those backgrounds often involve abuse. When they are systematically abused, they lash out and do all sorts of strange things to call attention to their plight," said criminology professor Robert Gordon from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. I am sure that the environment in which the offenders grow up, is one of the most important factors to ... ...
Control theories make a little more sense to me. Reckless" containment theory says there are predispositions that make people commit crimes. He uses the terms pushes and pulls. Pushes can come from troubled psyches, or stressful circumstances outside the individual, whereas pulls can be from family, friends, etc. His point is however that these pushes and ulls are not evenly distributed between society. He recognizes these pushes and pulls but says there is more needed to completely explain. Not all youths in socially disorganized areas that are exposed to these pushes or pulls commit crimes. ...
